Ian Byrd addresses a way to approach differentiated instruction.

I woke up this morning to find the following Tweet from Jeremy Brueck:This line between digital literacy and networked literacy is a fine one... Interesting read worth perusing.

From Mashable. Definitely worth checking out all 7.

PageRage lets you choose from hundreds of wallpaper customized just for Facebook. I love this application and found it from FB friend Courtney Weiss. Love this app, but you need to install Yontoo first for Firefox or IE. After that, you just browse and select; your choice gets added quickly to facebook.

HelloTxtroid - update your status via HelloTxt Android Client. Yet another reason to have an iPhone.

Described by Mike Bryant as a Web 1.5 for people almost ready to make the leap to web 2.0. Tabbloid gives you a pdf printable neat magazine-type effect for your favorite urls. For people not ready for Google Reader or a more conventional web 2.0 feeder, this just might be the ticket. It's also a great PR tool; take your student's blogs and tabbloid them; then print and sent out as a newsletter. Great creative uses for this tool in education. Summary by RJ Stangherlin.

Google Documents just got more teeth --- the introduction of themes makes creating a document online even easier.I'm a big fan of Google Documents, maybe t...

Andrew Maynard is a scientist and emerging technology adviser. He blogs at 2020 Science and tweets as @2020science. Some of the most entertaining, informative and mind-blowing science videos on the web come from TED - the Technology, Entertainment, Design conference. Challenged to give the "talk of their lives," the world's top scientists and science communicators have been dazzling audiences - many of whom are thought leaders, trend-setters and entertainers - for years now. Most of the best talks are now freely available on the internet, but sifting through hundreds of video clips to find the real gems can be hard going. To make things easier, here are five of my favorite TED Talks on science. The selection rules were simple: - Was I engaged within the first few seconds? - Was I entertained, inspired and challenged? - Would my kids understand the talk? and - Together, do they tell a story?

Could possibly be your favorite search engine?

Dazzboard provides an open media distribution platform to help manage, sync, discover and distribute any type of media with all your portable devices, PC and favorite social networks.

Build a virtual apartment and put it on your website. Work with friends to make a huge MMORPG. Share your puzzle game with friends. The vision: to enable you build anything, and play everything, from anywhere.

CamTweet lets you share live video on Twitter. If you have a Twitter account then you already have a CamTweet account, just login to CamTweet with your Twitter username and password and you are all set.

From Danielle Abernethy, some great differentiation stategies.

From Wikipedia, A QR Code is a matrix code (or two-dimensional bar code) created by Japanese corporation Denso-Wave in 1994. The "QR" is derived from "Quick Response", as the creator intended the code to allow its contents to be decoded at high speed. QR Codes are common in Japan, where they are currently the most popular type of two dimensional codes. Moreover, most current Japanese mobile phones can read this code with their camera.

Dipity lets you create timelines that you can share with the world. You can share the latest news, YouTube videos, Flickr photos, Twitter and more. We make it easy to post it to your website or blog. Start timelining now.

Great online resources for teaching European History.

Though many professors are still experimenting and learning how these tools can be used, below are 10 ways journalism schools are teaching students to use social media.

Instead of focusing their attention on promoting information to mainstream media, some university public affairs offices are using the power of social media to engage the community directly.

Comprehensive list of Google Twitter accounts.

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